and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’
Proverbs 26:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness or you’ll be like him yourself. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Answer not a [self-confident] fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. American Standard Version (1901) Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him. Common English Bible Don’t answer fools according to their folly, or you will become like them yourself. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not respond to the foolish according to his folly, lest you become like him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him. |
and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’
When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So Israel went to their tents,
To start a conflict is to release a flood; stop the dispute before it breaks out.
Don’t speak to a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.
Answer a fool according to his foolishness or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.
If a wise person goes to court with a fool, there will be ranting and raving but no resolution. ,
But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, ‘Don’t answer him.’
Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.
not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.
Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you! ’